

So, it is a very good thing that core gameplay is the most important feature of a sports sim, because, playing football in Pro Evolution Soccer 2017 has never been better. Even when you earn enough coins to hire scouts to improve your chances of getting the rare 70+ left back you need, you always end up randomly getting a hopeless center back that you have to throw back to the market. But the coins are soon gone and the opportunities to earn more cash quickly drys up as you have to start spending it on renewing player contracts. When you first build your team you get enough ingame currency to snag a few top players. And, when you do get to play your energy depletes so quickly that you’re useless in the second half of the game and you can feel your manager’s trust – the thing that’ll help you get more game-time – drop through the floor.īut, the management modes are also frustrating. Until there is a replay and it all slows down again. Sure, you can speed up the game a little. Not being able to quit out of a game when you’re subbed off, or skip to the point in the game where you’re subbed on, gets very old quick. PES 2017 is the first game to make me abandon the career mode inside the first season. Usually the created player career mode is my main go-to when it comes to any sports sim. Although they are not unique to PES 2017, some design choices are simply frustrating. While it wasn’t dumping me out of the game like PES 2016 did, matchmaking takes an age, and when you do get to play the lag can sometimes be impossible. All this considered, playing PES 2017 online, over the last week, has been a mess. Or it could just be New Zealand’s internet sucks. There may be server issues that are still being worked on, or matchmaking can be slow because there simply aren’t the people playing online. Sometimes, especially when you get an early copy of a game, playing online can be problematic.

All can be played on and offline along with cups, leagues, pvp and multiplayer competitions. The menu is dense and cluttered with game options from quick games to the managerial Master League, m圜lub, and Become a Legend modes. Did I mention the core gameplay is the most important thing in a sports sim? That’s a good thing for Konami because if licences were the most important thing, PES would be screwed. Barcelona is top of the bill, along with Messi, Neymar, and Luis Suarez (do we like Luis Suarez now? I guess so).Then there is Liverpool, the Champion’s League, and that’s about that.
